Universal Basic Income

So what are your thoughts on guaranteed money each month? With automation making it's way in year after year, I feel UBI is inevitable. Countries such as Finland is experimenting with it right now as we speak, not to mention that Hawaii passed a bill for this to occur sometime in the 2020's. My personal take on it is I can't really see how something like this can really work. Money doesn't grow out of trees and even if all jobs are taken by robots, I doubt the government will coerce all corporations to distribute their large earnings to societies. Furthermore we'll have people who'll try and exploit this in some shape or form, for instance, if you're to receive larger paychecks from the government for each child you conceive there is going to be people who will churn out a bunch of kids just to get fatter checks and I can imagine it'll be really bad in the long run, while robots, will work 24/7,not complain,require no compensation of any kind, while this mean ultra large sums of cash for the corporations and government, I STILL don't think UBI can work with the example I just gave you, furthermore with more and more immigrants moving into the country each year, I can imagine it can put a real strain on UBI. If this were a small homogeneous country that's restrictive of how many children a family can have and not to welcoming of immigrants, then this MIGHT work, other than that I don't think so. Now if people were to receive small checks each month like $300 a month, then that's more realistic, rather than covering all of the bare necessities. I think if UBI will be something along those lines of $300 a month then I think for you to qualify you have to be 18 years of age or older, have a job, no matter the hours and you have to been born an American citizen or obtain an American citizenship if you're an immigrant. Other than that you get no UBI. I can imagine UBI can be beneficial for many people, since it can help improve many people's quality of life, that or they'll just burn the money on drugs and alcohol. Nonetheless UBI is an interesting topic and I'm interesting in reading your thoughts. Cheers!

@Burning I'd say it's more socialism if anything really. However if it were to be implemented I wouldn't be against it ONLY if it can work. The $300 dollar a month thing was more of a realistic take on the idea, although that was being generous. But I'm pretty doubtful it can, although I'm just interested in what other people think of it.

@Fox Queen Thanks for a proper response. Sigh alot of my old homies I interact with aren't here. Oh well*Deactives*

In the US it could work if we cut back on military spending (Not the only change needed, but it's one that'd need to happen).